Artist CV
Artist's statement
(b 1992ZA. Lives and works in Johannesburg)
Mmabatho Grace Mokalapa’s art practice is focussed on the subjective, sublime experience of physical space. She is particularly interested in spacial voids that are impersonally infinite but also transcendental. Voids of the kind that affect the viewer’s sense of perception and sense of self, whilst simultaneously floating between reality and fictional space. Her interests lie in the presence of art in astronomy, philosophy and architecture, where the individual is less of a spectator and more as a participant. Mokalapa’s use of different media includes printmaking, video art, sound and installations.Solo exhibitions
- 2018
- Inconceivable Space Solo Exhibition at Assemblage
- 2019
- Solo Exhibition, Mysterious Ambiguities, Granada Spain.
Group exhibitions
- 2011
- An informal Creative Exchange at the Alf Khumalo Museum.
- 2013
- The Creative Exchange hosted by the Wits School of Arts.
- 2014
- The Creative Exchange hosted by the Wits School of Arts.
- Newwork 2014 Grad Show at the University of Witwatersrand.
- 2015
- Art 10K Auction.
- 2016:
- The Rotarty Arts Festival 2016
- ABSA L'Atelier 2016 at the ABSA Gallery
- Post Its Exhibition at the Constitution Hill
- The Forgotten Exhibition at Lizamore & Associates
- Beasts Of No Nation Group Exhibition at HAZARD Gallery
- FALSE IDOLS Exhibition at Twilsharp Studios
- Creator Curator/Curator Creator Exhibition at the ABSA Gallery
- #NOBREAK at The 13th Floor
- 2017
- The 2y2k Show at Twilsharp Studios.
- 2018
- Drawn In Group Exhibition at Twilsharp Studios
- Mall Of Africa Spring Art Exhibition
- Inktober Exhibition
- 2019
- The Spaces In between at TMRW Gallery
- Artybollocks Exhibition at The Project Space
- The Invisible Exhibition - Season 5 at The Centre For The Less Good Idea
- In Plain Sight at The Mesh Club.
- Latitudes Art Fair
- Underlined.
- ARP Art Residency Project
Awards & residencies
- 2013
- The Robert Hodgins Prize
- 2019
- ARP Art Residency Project ( Cape Town, Grenada, Rome)
Press & publications
Collections
The African Arts Trust
The Spier Arts Trust
Education
University of Witwatersrand studying BA Fine Arts.